The Hardworking Student
Mike Ledur
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Four years of hard work in high school had earned me a scholarship in college, and I was determined to keep it and earn high enough grades to be accepted in graduate school afterwards. So unlike most of my fellow students in the dorm, I spent most of my time studying in the library, reading and rereading the textbooks and other related material for my courses.
I wasn't totally unsociable, though, and I got to know a few of the other students. One of them was majoring in English, my least favorite subject, and one day when she saw me in front of a physics book, she asked me how I could stand it. I proposed an arrangement: I could help her with math (I was a chemistry major with lots of math courses behind me), and she could review my themes for my English composition course.
She accepted, and let's call her Charlotte-Marie made lots of changes to my themes in exchange for my explanations of problems in her math book. Even though it was mutually beneficial, we felt a low-level disdain for each other. I wondered how I could respect someone who was so dense about basic math, and I'm sure she wondered how I could make so many sentence mistakes.
That was unspoken, and we seemed to get along. We'd usually meet on Tuesday and Friday evenings in the lounge in the basement of the main library. We were focused and worked hard on our coursework, not just the subjects we were helping each other with.
Sometimes, just before the library closed, Charlotte-Marie would change to a softer tone of voice and tell me things like how happy she was to have me as her special friend. (I wondered whether she had any others. I seldom saw her talking to anybody else.) When she asked me whether I could keep secrets, I assured her I could. She started telling me her secrets, usually little things about about her sister or her hobbies. I acknowledged them but wasn't too impressed. One day she told me that she wrote stories about events in her life.
Telling me those secrets must have made her feel attached to me. And since she was relatively attractive, with fair skin and just a few extra pounds, I began to feel attached to her. One evening as we left the library when it closed at 10:00, I decided to try something. I led her to an area of high bushes alongside the library, put my arms around her waist, and gave her a quick kiss. "That's nice," she said. And the next time, we walked together to the same spot and exchanged several kisses.
The following Tuesday, we kissed even more intensely outside the library. I was sure that she could feel my arousal pressing against her as I felt her breasts through her blouse, but she just kissed me more. Going further would have been impossible, or at least complicated, because of the living arrangements in the dorms, but the following week her secret was that she'd written a story about me. She didn't offer to let me read it.
A week later her secret, which she told me in an even softer voice that usual, was that she wanted to write a "spicy romance" story. When she noticed that I didn't really know what she meant, she explained and, in her softest voice, said she'd need my help, since she didn't think she could write it without my participation. "They say, 'Write what you know,'" she explained.
On Friday evening two weeks later, she announced as her secret that "I and another roommate have agreed to stay out of our room between 9:00 and 11:00 o'clock this evening."
She might have said that because she wanted us to walk around campus for an hour, which we did. But the way she'd said it, kind of proud to make a discovery, told me that maybe she'd learned that negotiation with roommates for such an arrangement was possible.
On Tuesday evening, a week and a half later, she said that she'd agreed with her other two roommates that she could be alone in the room that Friday evening between 9:00 and 11:00. "Can you bring contraceptives?" she asked, a little anxious. "Sure," I answered.
So I went to a drugstore and bought condoms and a small tube of lubrication. I thought about my only similar experience, which had been with a high-paid professional, a gift for my eighteenth birthday, and I wondered how that would compare to an experience with a volunteer, a first-timer at that.
Friday evening's event was on my mind most of the time for the next three days, and I did some research on the topic online. My biggest question concerned the twenty minutes that women apparently needed to warm up beforehand.
By the time I arrived at Charlotte-Marie's room at exactly 9:00 on Friday evening, I was quite anxious. Some of that dissipated as soon as she opened the door. She looked both ways down the corridor, indicated that I should come in, and initiated a serious kiss. On the way to the bed, I noticed her laptop opened to a kind of list, and she quickly checked off a couple of items and looked at the next ones.
She suggested I take off my shoes and socks and then asked me whether I'd brought the supplies. "Sure," I answered. I took them out of my backpack and put them on a little table next to the bed. She opened the box of condoms and then checked the tube of lubrication and then quickly did something on the laptop before inviting me to sit next to her on the bed. I thought I should say something nice, so I told her I was very happy she'd been able to negotiate to have the room to herself. "Please, Mike, promise me you'll never tell anybody." I promised, and we sat down on the bed and started kissing. I wondered whether I really needed to wait for twenty minutes.
In fact, though, I lost track of time. After our kissing became more intense than it had ever been outside the library, we started taking off each others' clothes. I lost myself in the sea of soft skin, which I kissed over and over. She seemed happy to receive my kisses and to have her breasts caressed, but she didn't move very much, in contrast to the professional, who'd been very active and done a lot of things. After a while, with both of us naked and me lying on top of her, I took out one of the condoms and put it on as Charlotte-Marie watched.
Then I slowly put a finger inside her, as the professional had invited me to do, and felt that there was plenty of lubrication. At that point I was pretty much a slave to my body, which dictated every action. When I couldn't hold back anymore, I slowly came inside Charlotte-Marie, who let out a little sigh, which I hoped wasn't from pain. We kissed each other desperately as I moved in and out, trying to go slow and make the moment last, as the professional had suggested. But after about five minutes I felt that I couldn't go on any longer and let go inside her. It was an earth-shattering experience, and suddenly I felt that in spite of her trouble with basic math, I was deeply in love with her and would always be. I tried not to move, wishing the moment could last forever.
But after a few minutes, I knew that I needed to come out. I took off the condom, wet with her lubrication, and leaned my head over hers, stroking her face, which now looked beautiful. I continued like that for several minutes, telling her I loved her.
"Did you like it?" I finally asked.
"Mike, I was so happy to have you with me and be in the bed naked with you. But I don't think I liked it as much as you did. I'm glad you liked it so much. I really am."
Naturally I was disappointed to learn that, but I was glad she was honest. I hoped that we'd be able to use the room again in a week or two, so that I could do it again and so that she'd have another chance to enjoy it as much as I did. Anyway, we stayed there talking for another hour. Our conversation gradually moved to other topics, and near the end of the two hours, we got dressed. We shared a final kiss at 10:55, and as I left, I saw her sit down in front of her laptop and get busy typing. I looked both ways in the hallway, since I knew she didn't want anybody to see me.
At 9:55 the next Friday evening in the library lounge, she changed to her secrets tone and told me she'd published a story about our adventure online, and she told me her screen name and explained how to find it. Outside, she was more passionate than ever and touched my arousal. "I'm so lucky to have you," she said.
When I got back to my room, I looked for the story, half-wondering whether she'd blame me for not having enjoyed our experience more. What I found, though, was a version of the episode that I barely recognized. Instead of blaming me, she described how sexy I was and how much I'd turned her on.